Career in local politics
Bartolone was a municipal councillor of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais from 1977 to 1983, and from 1995 to 2008. He served as Deputy Mayor of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais from 1977 to 1983, from June to October 1995, as Mayor from 1995 to 1998, and again as Deputy Mayor from 2001 to 2008. He was also municipal councillor of Les Lilas from 1983 to 1989.
Bartolone served as Seine-Saint-Denis general councillor from 1979 to 1992, and has served again since 2008. From 1985 to 1992, he served as vice-president of the Seine-Saint-Denis General Council, and as president from 2008 to 2012. From 1998 to 2002, he served as regional councillor of Ile-de-France.
Career in national politics
Bartolone served as a member of the National Assembly for the sixth district, encompassing Seine-Saint-Denis from 1981 to 1998. From 1998 to 2002, he served as Delegate Minister for the City. From 2002, he served as member of the National Assembly again.
When Martine Aubry took over as leader of the Socialist Party in 2008, Bartolone joined the party’s leadership and was put in charge of relations to other Socialist parties internationally.[5] In the Socialist Party's 2011 primaries, he endorsed Aubry as the party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election.[6]
Following the June 2012 parliamentary election, in which the Socialist Party won a parliamentary majority, Bartolone was designated as the Socialist candidate for the post of President of the National Assembly. In the vote, held on 26 June 2012, Bartolone was accordingly elected to the post, receiving 298 votes against 185 votes for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) candidate Bernard Accoyer, who held the post during the preceding parliamentary term.[7]
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From 2012 to 2017, Bartolone served as President of the National Assembly of France.[4][8] Thus, he lived in the Hôtel de Lassay.[4]
Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2012 convention in Toulouse, Bartolone publicly endorsed Jean-Christophe Cambadélis as candidate to succeed Martine Aubry at the party's leadership.[9] Ahead of the party's 2017 primaries, he endorsed Manuel Valls as its candidate for the presidential election later that year.[10]